Bone loss: Introduction

Bone loss: A condition which is characterized by the loss of the amount of bone in ones body particular its density.
See detailed information below for a list of 23
causes of Bone loss, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

Bone loss Treatments

Stories from Users for Bone loss

Drug interactions causing Bone loss:

When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react
causing Bone loss as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.

Bone loss: Deaths

Misdiagnosis and Bone loss

Alzheimer's disease over-diagnosed: The well-known disease of Alzheimer's disease
is often over-diagnosed.
Patients tend to assume that any memory loss or forgetulness...read more »

Dementia may be a drug interaction: A common scenario in aged care is for
a patient to show mental decline to dementia.
Whereas this can, of course, occur due to various medical conditions,
such as a stroke or Alzheimer's disease,
it...read more »

Rare diseases misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease: A rare genetic
disorder is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease for men in their 50's.
The disease Fragile X disorder can show only mild symptoms in the early years,
and Parkinsons-like symptoms...read more »

Female athlete syndrome leads to undiagnosed osteoporosis: Younger women are not usually
considered as candidates for diagnosis of osteoporosis....read more »

How Common are these Causes of Bone loss?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Bone loss.
Of the 23
causes of Bone loss that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Bone loss:

The following list of conditions
have 'Bone loss' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.

Select from the following alphabetical view of conditions which
include a symptom of Bone loss or choose View All.

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